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Originally Posted by Electronic M
Tip for moving heavy consoles remove chassis, CRT, and anything else that can easily be removed and reinstalled later.....It takes longer, but on their own most cabinets are fairly light, and even the heaviest chassis is easier to lift without the bulk of a large cabbinet to maneuver.
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I agree with you if the cabinet just houses a TV, but I can't see a cabinet in which a 3-way entertainment center resides being all that light -- after all, most of those cabinets are made of very heavy wood and must weigh the proverbial ton in their own right. For example, Magnavox's 25-inch 3-way color theater set from the 1960s is in a huge cabinet that must weigh at least 100 pounds if it weighs an ounce, even without the TV and stereo chassis. I would not attempt to move that cabinet -- yes, just the cabinet all by its lonesome, sans the guts except the CRT -- without at least four very strong men to help me. The CRT will add some weight to an already heavy cabinet, of course (I don't know how much a 25" rectangular tube weighs, but it must be 50 pounds easily), so the extra help is a must if you don't want to wreck your back.
However, there is an alternative if you find yourself in a situation where you must move such a cabinet yourself, without help. The solution is a product called Moving Men. These are placed under each corner of a heavy piece of furniture and will allow it to be moved just about anywhere in a room with ease. I don't know how they work -- small ball bearings in spring-loaded sockets mounted in rubber pads or what -- but I believe these things have probably, over the years, saved an awful lot of people from straining or otherwise injuring their backs while moving heavy furniture, be it a large console television or anything else. Nothing is worth possibly straining your back and being laid up for weeks or months.